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Editor, News-Register:
Last month, on the Interstate 70 west off-ramp headed toward W.Va. 2 south, just outside the Wheeling Tunnel, I was approaching the point where traffic merges on the ramp when a car ran through that STOP sign, traveling at a high rate of speed. Had our car been seconds different we would have been hit by the car that ran through the stop sign. We could have been seriously injured or killed.
That was the closest I've ever been to an accident, due to an uncaring driver with no apparent concern for others. The West Virginia Division of Highways did recently change that from a yield sign to a stop sign, and the new stop sign does get people's attention -- if you're paying attention, that is.
Had an accident occurred, it would have backed up traffic on the interstate and on the Fort Henry Bridge. It would have been hard to get an ambulance to Wheeling Hospital.
What does it take to get people to realize that's now a stop sign? Flashing light? A lighted stop sign?
Eunice Lohr
Wheeling